And so to the crucial Round Three of the tournament. Though why Round Three should be any more crucial than any other week is beyond us. In fact, to quote sage pundit Jiffy on the matter: “Go left! Go left! Go left!”

All we can hope for are good contests. Especially in the scrums. On which basis we emailed the following to each team’s HQ just in case it might be news to them:

Our email of same to the refs’ brainstrust bounded back to us marked “Unknown at this address”.

The contests

Saturday 23rd

Italy -v- Wales Stadio Olimpico 14:30

England -v- France Twickenham 17:00

Sunday 24th

Scotland -v- Ireland Murrayfield 14:00

The only certainty is that, thankfully, they won’t be playing on green plastic.

Chek, the annoying thing is the FEAR this is instilling in me. If we lose tomorrow and against wales, we’ll probably capitulate to france irrespective if it is good france or bad france, and it’ll still be that we’ve only beaten italy.

Just as baldy can throw pelters at the welsh for only being able to win in this little pond, hector and co will be able to do the same about scotland’s supposed ‘resurgence’.